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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Pilot" – "Hiroshima".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How far is Okinawa from the Japanese mainland?
(a) 140 miles.
(b) 25 miles.
(c) 340 miles.
(d) 200 miles.

2. On what date did Adolf Hitler commit suicide?
(a) April 30, 1945.
(b) April 12, 1945.
(c) March 13, 1945.
(d) September 1, 1945.

3. Where did Harry Gold travel to deliver the lab information to Soviet spies, according to the author in "Tradecraft"?
(a) Jersey City.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Newark.
(d) New York.

4. Who flipped the switch that armed the plutonium bomb for testing in July of 1945?
(a) Hans Bethe.
(b) Kenneth Bainbridge.
(c) Alexander Feklisov.
(d) Robert Serber.

5. By what name did Dorothy McKibben's potential employer introduce himself when he interviewed with her at a Santa Fe hotel in March of 1943?
(a) Mr. Anderson.
(b) Mr. Bradley.
(c) Mr. Werner.
(d) Mr. Smith.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Robert Oppenheimer born?

2. What code name was Enrico Fermi given at Los Alamos?

3. Who was the Army Counter-Intelligence officer that questioned Paul Tibbets before he met with General Uzal Ent in the summer of 1944?

4. On what date was the first meeting of the physicists at the Los Alamos Ranch School?

5. Who informed Robert Oppenheimer about the German chemists finding the uranium could be split, according to the author in "The U Business"?

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